Trevor Nunn directs Torben Betts's play "Speculations" at Marylebone Theatre in London, which centres on real-life American journalist Dorothy Kilgallen's conspiracy theories about Marilyn Monroe's death. Kilgallen, played by Janie Dee, investigates links between John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy to Monroe's death in 1962 at age 36. Her theories, which form part of an unpublished book, connect a political cover-up and underworld crime to the star's death. The Guardian describes Betts's work as "intriguing but flawed."
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Marilyn Monroe is a magnetic misfit in Speculations, a spicy conspiracy drama full of bombshells
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